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Natural History Collections Imaging Survey Report. Current imaging practices...
Survey that aimed to find out the existing guidelines and recommendations for imaging natural history collections that have been adopted and used by the community. -
Georeferencing Best Practices
Provides guidelines to best practices for georeferencing biological occurrence data. -
Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of...
This publication provides a base for thinking about a digitization project to be categorized into groups tasks which are referred as task clusters. -
Symbiota - iDigBio Collection Management System (CMS) Information Gathering - Survey
This document captures responses from Symbiota to a survey made by iDigBio in 2021 that includes answers to questions that would be relevant for a biodiversity specimen... -
The Museum System - iDigBio Collection Management System (CMS) Information...
This document captures responses from The Museum System to a survey made by iDigBio in 2021 that includes answers to questions that would be relevant for a biodiversity specimen... -
TaxonWorks - iDigBio Collection Management System (CMS) Information...
This document captures responses from TaxonWorks to a survey made by iDigBio in 2021 that includes answers to questions that would be relevant for a biodiversity specimen... -
CollectiveAccess
Collection management system that is meant to be generic enough to serve many kinds of collections, archives, libraries, etc. -
CollectionSpace - iDigBio Collection Management System (CMS) Information...
This document captures responses from CollectionSpace to a survey made by iDigBio in 2021 that includes answers to questions that would be relevant for a biodiversity specimen... -
CollectionSpace
Collection management system that not only focus on biodiversity specimen collections but also allows the management of collection of several fields such as archeology, art,... -
Collection Management Systems
This article gives descriptions of commonly used collection management systems used by biodiversity collections and have links to other resources to get further information... -
MorphoSource
Repository of 3D models specialized on natural history, cultural heritage and scientific collections. It provides tools to find, view and download 3D data. -
ITP: The Integrated Publishing Toolkit
Software that allows for the creation and management of repositories for publishing data in GBIF. It creates a Darwin-Core compliant repository that can be published in GBIF. -
Lightroom
Computer software that focuses on image manipulation via non-destructive edits. It allows batch editing files and produces edits such as changing the color profiles, cropping,... -
What is Copyright?
Page that describes the general concepts of Copyright. It addresses several topics that would be of interest to someone new to the different aspects of copyright. It is... -
Helicon Focus
Photo stacking software that can work with large numbers of high-quality photos. It can process RAW files and save the resulting compilation in DNG. It takes advantage of multi-... -
Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide
A practical guide that demonstrates the usage of georeferencing best practices applied to different scenarios or types of locality description one might encounter when in the... -
Code of Ethics and Professional Practices for Collections Professionals
Codes of ethics that are specifically tailored for the activities and responsibilities of collections professionals. This code of ethics is part of the American Alliance of... -
Smart Shooter
Remote shooting camera software. One aspect that makes it useful for digitizing collections is that it can read different types of barcodes directly from the photo and include... -
Specify 6
Desktop application for a collection management system, part of a suite of software developed by the Specify Collections Consortium. It can be used for free using the open-... -
Specify 7
Web-based collection management system, part of a suite of software developed by the Specify Collections Consortium. It can be used for free using the open-source installation...